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Speaker 1: Happy Monday. It was a happy Saturday. It was a

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Speaker 1: fun night BBWAA Awards. We streamed the entire thing live.

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Speaker 1: It's about a four hour live stream. You can skip

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Speaker 1: through and pick and choose your spots including Otani, Judge Skiens,

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Speaker 1: Schooble speeches, interviews with guys like Pat Murphy, Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the Year Drake Baldwin, Carlos Rodin was on our show,

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Speaker 1: so you can go back and look at that.

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Speaker 2: It is on the FT YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: We're going to post some parts of it on our

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Speaker 1: podcast platforms this week, but if you're listening in the

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Speaker 2: Channel to check that out. It was fun and Todd

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Speaker 2: Father Kratz was dressed up nicely.

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Speaker 3: It was I saw. I saw a couple of pictures

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Speaker 3: he was dressed to impressed.

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Speaker 4: I gotta be honest, I'd give him credit for that,

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Speaker 4: but I'm glad he's got his hat back on and

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Speaker 4: we can move on, so we're good.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna wear a hat. It got k it

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Speaker 5: got Oh really yeah, I got a nice new Era

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Speaker 5: came out with a line of Fedoras and uh, what

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Speaker 5: are the what are the ones that like the taxi

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Speaker 5: cab hats with the short brim that that kind of

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Speaker 5: John I got him back in the day. So I

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Speaker 5: was gonna wear them, but didn't quite match my suit.

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Speaker 5: So until next.

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Speaker 2: Year it got kebashed by us by.

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Speaker 5: Higher up, higher up than Scott, higher up than Mark,

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Speaker 5: higher up than Claude cab. The higher, the higher.

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Speaker 1: Up, the highest, the highest up, the familial highest up.

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Speaker 5: Yep, okay, my daughter, my daughter, I'm saying it was

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Speaker 5: my daughter. You look, you look stupid. Your face is weird.

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Speaker 4: Dad's She's not wrong, she's not wrong.

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Speaker 5: It's not wrong.

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Speaker 2: And Todd father would tell her checks in the mail.

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Speaker 2: I got you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, relax, come on now, it's let Doddy, Let Doddy

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Speaker 4: love a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's we get a suit that matches it.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that it was clear that

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Speaker 1: we aren't preventing you from doing anything like the ft

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Speaker 1: network supports whatever you do and where your family not

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Speaker 1: anything right, but your family is there.

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Speaker 2: To keep you in check. All right, let's charge.

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Speaker 5: Let's charge about.

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Speaker 1: Get ready for the statue in Cleveland. Top Father Jose

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Speaker 1: Ramirez signs an extension and he gets more money added on.

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Speaker 1: So he had three years left on his contract, and

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Speaker 1: now his deal runs through twenty thirty two. He turns

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Speaker 1: forty later that season in twenty thirty two, so that'll

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Speaker 1: do it twenty five million a year from twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six to twenty thirty two. Ken with the details on

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Speaker 1: this part. Ten million deferred each year during that time period,

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Speaker 1: so twenty five and then ten gets pushed back ten

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Speaker 1: years later for each of those years. Also, Ken notes

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Speaker 1: private jet travel for one round trip per year, plus

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Speaker 1: one trip to and from the All Star Game, also

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Speaker 1: an additional hotel room on the road besides his suite.

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Speaker 1: Awards packages also doubled from current contract. Five hundred k

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Speaker 1: for MVP, three hundred k for second or third, one

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Speaker 1: fifty k for fourth or fifth, plus bonuses for All

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Speaker 1: Star Gold Glove Shortstop or Star Sorry Shortstop, Silver Slugger LCS,

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Speaker 1: and World Series MVPs. And guess what, He's finished top

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Speaker 1: five seven times in MVP, so he might be getting

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Speaker 1: a little extra.

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Speaker 2: Kashish.

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Speaker 1: He's always kind of mentioned how he could have gotten

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Speaker 1: more and he could have pressed the Cleveland Indians at

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Speaker 1: the time now Guardians, but he decided to take the

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Speaker 1: quote team friendly contract so that he could stick around,

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Speaker 2: What do you think about all of this?

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Speaker 4: I love it. It's like a dream come true, man.

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Speaker 4: I mean all this stuff, one free round trip per

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Speaker 4: like he already knows I'm making the All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: I love the confidence and it's true. He's an absolute beast. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I've always wanted to hear about stuff like this. You

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Speaker 4: get the outside stuff. And now, yeah, where's he gonna go? Man,

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Speaker 4: He's gonna go to you know, Fiji. I mean that

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Speaker 4: one round trip. I would take that up and go

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Speaker 4: go somewhere special. But yes, he's sitting pretty. He always has.

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Speaker 4: He's and he deserves it. He's been a really good

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Speaker 3: Through the years.

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Speaker 4: And he's gonna make some incentive money too as well,

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Speaker 4: pay for the groceries. And yeah, he's got to be

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Speaker 4: smiling right now no matter what the weather is. He

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Speaker 4: stuff like this and this is you know, he deserves it.

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Speaker 4: He took a team friendly deal, and now he's the

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is, without a doubt, year in and

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Speaker 5: not have blemishes. You know, he's not perfect, but he

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Speaker 5: who Jose Ramirez is. They know he's an All Star,

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Speaker 5: they know he's the face of the Guardians right now,

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Speaker 5: and they know he's a really good hitter. But if

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Speaker 5: third base, but the fact that he is possibly the

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Speaker 5: last three years he's had a shot at being a

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Speaker 5: forty to forty guy, he's a thirty thirty guy. Like

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Speaker 5: the numbers are just there. That's nomical to me, and

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Speaker 5: for him not to get more love It's okay, because

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Speaker 5: I think that's why he resigned with the Guardians. He

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Speaker 5: loves it. I've heard him saying plenty of interviews, my

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Speaker 5: stay at a place really does mean more than a

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Speaker 5: certain amount of money to people. So good for Hosey

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Speaker 5: and great for the Guardians organization because he will go

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Speaker 5: in as a Hall of Famer as a Cleveland Guardian.

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Speaker 1: That's right, three years, sixty nine million was left. Now

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Speaker 1: new money is seven years, one seventy five. No, no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: New Year's New year money is four years one oh

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Speaker 1: six to the existing deal. Seventy million of that is

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Speaker 1: deferred money. Wait, I thought only the Dodgers did deferrals.

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Speaker 1: from team to player either. We'll talk later about Andrew McCutcheon.

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Speaker 1: Here's my question for you, Todd father. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: like Cleveland needs to show him a little more love

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Speaker 1: and support in the lineup. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: but I do remember seeing March twenty twenty five, he

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Speaker 1: they were talking about how at least it said, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true or not, that

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Speaker 1: you know he wanted the team to kind of take

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Speaker 1: advantage of the discount and build a winner. Even if

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Speaker 1: a hypothetical right, because the Guardians haven't won a World

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Speaker 1: Series since the late nineteen forties, do you feel like

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Speaker 1: Cleveland owes it to him to give him a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. They stay pretty silent during the offseason and

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Speaker 1: still put together a nice contender, But can you imagine

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Speaker 3: I think they owe it to Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Jose, of course he's been there through the long haul,

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Speaker 3: But I think they owe.

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Speaker 4: It to the city to put a contender up there.

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Speaker 4: You know, they make the playoffs, but you know, getting

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Speaker 4: beat by the Tigers and you know, not scoring that

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Speaker 4: many runs. So I mean, listen, at the end of

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Speaker 4: the day, they need a couple more bats. They need

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Speaker 4: some help. For sure, they find ways to win. They

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Speaker 4: got good pitching. They they're good enough, but will they

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Speaker 4: get catapult over to where they want to be and

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Speaker 4: win a World Series?

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Speaker 3: Not yet.

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Speaker 4: I just think they do need They need somebody else

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Speaker 5: For sure, Wait help him. Wait a minute, you're saying

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Speaker 5: that a better lineup Jose Ramirez could be better than this.

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Speaker 5: I totally agree with you, Todd. Like if they added

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Speaker 5: if they added a piece behind him, not a Carlos

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Speaker 5: like maybe Pete Alonso last year, What that would have

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Speaker 5: done to this lineup. It was clearly going to be

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Speaker 5: a one year thing. What would that have done to

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Speaker 5: this lineup? Massive? What would have done to Jose Ramirez production?

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Speaker 5: It would have It would have taken to me, It

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Speaker 5: don't think he can do it on his own. But

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Speaker 5: there's one stat that is so crazy at Jose Ramirez.

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Speaker 5: The last ten seasons, ten straight years, including the COVID season,

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Speaker 5: he has had more RBIs than strikeouts. In an era

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Speaker 5: where we have just been totally okay with the strikeout,

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Speaker 5: his short little arms keep getting to the ball and

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Speaker 5: keep driving the ball out of the ballpark. It is.

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Speaker 5: It is a wild thing to say that somebody's that's

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Speaker 5: ended up in the top five in Envy he voting

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Speaker 5: so many years, is underrated. But I will say it again,

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Speaker 5: Jose Ramirez is underrated.

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Speaker 1: It's not just Cleveland. It's also that he's kind of

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Speaker 1: boring in a good way. He just consistently puts up

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Speaker 1: the same numbers every single year. It almost makes it boring, right,

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Speaker 1: He's fun to watch, I'm just saying from a national

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Speaker 1: stage or like cool, same dude every year, Top five

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Speaker 1: MVP consistent and Wyatt doesn't speak much publicly, so that's

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Speaker 1: part of it too.

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Speaker 5: And he doesn't hit and he doesn't hit five hundred

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Speaker 5: whoa did you see that tape measure? I mean the

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Speaker 5: first year where he really broke out and he had

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Speaker 5: a ton of doubles. The next season something like something

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Speaker 5: like seven of his doubles the year before either hit

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Speaker 5: And the next season he had like seven or eight

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Speaker 5: more home runs. So he he's just he is a

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Speaker 5: pure hitter with power in a lineup that he carries

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Speaker 5: it all himself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets pitched around all the time, so it

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Speaker 1: makes it even more amazing. Good for him, good for Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: good for the organization. Breaking news during FT and we

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Speaker 1: have a resident GM, Jim Boden, to help talk us

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Speaker 1: This I don't want to call it is a pivot,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So, I mean, to me, Bater's a fourth outfielder.

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Speaker 3: You know, he was a member of the Yankees.

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Speaker 6: He thought he should be hitting clean up on that team.

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Speaker 6: So what I I've heard, you know, in terms of

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Speaker 5: What does this say about Jung Hu Lee, who they

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Speaker 5: Is it maybe a misstep on evaluation or his game

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean again, I think they just they wanted

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Speaker 3: That Bater's going to be.

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Speaker 6: But they still do love young Holy Bader is not

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Speaker 6: Is that out there yet? Scotty?

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Speaker 2: Not yet? Not yet.

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Speaker 1: We just have two years, so no money yet in

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Speaker 2: You know, it appeared that he was looking for three

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty low contract.

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Speaker 6: And look, he's a solid fourth outfielder and in that ballpark,

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Speaker 6: as you guys know, you know, you really need centerfielders

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I like to fit in that ballpark. Farris

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Speaker 1: Last one here on this. Did they do enough San

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: Right, I mean you load it up with guys who

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean I love the fact they were chasing CJ. Abrams, Like,

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Speaker 6: I would have loved him at second base on that team,

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Speaker 6: If he's healthy, we know he's a good picture. He's

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Speaker 6: chance for a wildcard. You're not catching the Dodgers, so

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Speaker 6: really haven't done that this offseason, so hopefully their offseason

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Speaker 6: there's still trades that can be made, so we got

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Speaker 6: to show patients. But as of now, the answer is no,

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Speaker 6: San Francisco has not done enough. Outside of the fact

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Speaker 6: they bought the current Theater, which I think is a

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Speaker 6: cool acquisition. I just wish they had put the money

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Speaker 1: Bat I'm with you, the good ol real estate instead

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one plays out over the long term. I

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Speaker 1: That's a good way to finish this conversation. JB are

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Speaker 1: the best. Thank you, appreciate you. Thanks guys, all right,

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Speaker 1: we'll keep the conversation going right now with Todd Father

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Speaker 1: and with Kratz. So for San Francisco, the other layer here,

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Speaker 1: like JB mentioned, is how they just recently made a

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Speaker 1: strong push to get cj Abrams and Andrew Baggerley of

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Speaker 1: The Athletic, who covers the team, wrote about this here.

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Speaker 1: It included a prospect package that could have had I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm going to say the name perfectly here,

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Speaker 1: Josh war Gonzalez, thank you. He's eighteen years old, so

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Speaker 1: three years of him and Krats. This would of course

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Speaker 1: be for him to play second base, not to play shortstop.

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Speaker 1: Your old teammate Willia domis the shortstop for a while

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Speaker 2: Would have been cool. That would have been a nice ad.

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Speaker 1: It seems like they've been trying to pluck Brendan Donovan

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Speaker 1: and say I think Bater's going to get some pretty

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Speaker 1: quick to the lineup right now from Fangrafts and they

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Speaker 1: added instantly Will This against Righty's Willia Domas one devers

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Speaker 2: They've got Bryce Eldridge, the rookie who is a.

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Speaker 1: Top I believe twenty prospect right now in Baseball America's

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, it's great. It's great that they brought

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Speaker 5: Beata in. And I agree with you. I'm against what

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Speaker 5: You know, they traded away Yas last year, didn't resign back,

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Speaker 5: It's a large it's a large left center to right

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Speaker 5: So does Lee play center? Does Beata play center? Who knows?

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Speaker 5: I hope because we don't know the money yet. For

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Speaker 5: it was an anomaly, and I think his offensive production

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Speaker 5: we need somebody that plays this and that he looks

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Speaker 5: That's what he did, That's what his entire crew of

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Speaker 5: saying that guy is a banger defender, like you need

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Speaker 5: your offense needs to be defensive when you're playing eighty

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Speaker 1: And good call, real quick top father. Twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: He was fine. I mean, he was still a productive player.

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Speaker 1: Going off some basic advanced stats here seven ninety two

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Speaker 5: But it felt like, sorry Todd, like it felt like

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Speaker 5: It helps a guy like Elliot Ramos, who is a

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Speaker 3: And like to kind of button all this up. You know,

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Speaker 3: we talked about Bata.

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Speaker 4: I love him, good signing, but are they gonna Is

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Speaker 4: really well and we'll see, I mean conflicting reports on

437
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 4: both sides whether he's gonna start or not, or position

438
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 4: he's gonna play, So all up to what the Giants

439
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 4: want to do next.

440
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good fit, right. You want a super athlete.

441
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: Bater is a super athlete. Yeah, you want super athletes.

442
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: In San Francisco, Kratz always talks about this, Eric, you

443
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: want to build around your ballpark. You can't just have

444
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 1: no pop in your line. It's not like Bader doesn't

445
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: have pop. They're going to have more pop than they've

446
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: had in a long time. With Adamis, who finally cracked

447
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: thirty for San Francisco first time since Barry Bonds, that

448
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: you had to player crack thirty homers, that's crazy. Devers

449
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 1: should do that if he's healthy this season, and I

450
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 1: mean Bryce Eldridge should be able to do that eventually,

451
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: whether he cracks the team in spring training to opening

452
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,880
Speaker 1: day or not. I mean, he's a guy who has

453
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Speaker 1: serious pops. So this gives you pop, but then you

454
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Speaker 1: still want athleticism from this team. So Buster Posey's trying

455
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Speaker 1: to put his stamp on this ball club.

456
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Speaker 5: I think when you said what I said, you build

457
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Speaker 5: your team around the park. Only when you have a

458
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 5: certain park that it really plays like Oracle, like Kaufman,

459
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 5: even though they're moving the fences in like Colorado. You

460
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 5: have to be able to But to me, you have

461
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 5: to be able to bring those guys up from the

462
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Speaker 5: minor leagues and then supplement them with other guys that

463
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 5: bring something to the table because you do have to

464
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 5: play eighty one games on the road. But to me,

465
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 5: they have a distinct advantage in San Francisco of finding

466
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 5: ground ball pitchers, guys who don't walk, guys on the mound,

467
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:23,959
Speaker 5: don't chase the strikeouts, and then offensive players who are

468
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 5: also elite defenders. I mean, the Matt Chapman fit there

469
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 5: is ridiculous. The fact that they have platinum Glove at

470
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 5: third base and he can still hit. Like I'm not

471
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 5: saying these dudes are, you know, are just bobo hitters.

472
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 5: But let's pump the brakes. Like as good a year

473
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Speaker 5: as Bader had, he hadn't been above ops plus since

474
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Speaker 5: like sixteen or seventeen before this, Like he's a career

475
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 5: ninety six ops plus. His value is in that defense,

476
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 5: and that's where the Giants get a little extra. We

477
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 5: don't know what the money is, but that's where they

478
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 5: get a little extra in the contract compared to other

479
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 5: teams that could have signed Baper.

480
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Speaker 1: Let's do the classic after a signing power rank the

481
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Speaker 1: division teams National League West?

482
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Speaker 2: Who would like to go first?

483
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 5: Dodgers? All right, who's second? Then Todd Dodgers.

484
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Besides let's do two through the rest.

485
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm going I'm going Padres still, I'm going.

486
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Speaker 4: Arizona, San Francisco, Colorado, Okaya, And I'm like the San

487
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 4: Francisco Arizona. I'm I'm torn on a little bit though. Okay,

488
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 4: that can go either way.

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Speaker 5: I agree Kratz man, if the if the Diamondbacks had

490
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Speaker 5: any kind of pitching, if they resigned, gowon all the

491
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 5: ifs and butts and all this stuff. Coryn Byrne comes

492
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 5: back in June, is he one hundred percent healthy? I

493
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 5: think the Diamondbacks have the highest ceiling of anybody. I mean,

494
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 5: they need some of their woopen to come back. Like

495
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 5: there's there's a lot going on with the Diamondbacks. The

496
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 5: Padres aren't perfect. They have a really good bullpen. They're

497
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 5: starting rotation. If they get rid of Pavetta, it's scary,

498
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 5: like all of a sudden, you know you have Michael King.

499
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 5: Your starting rotation was suspect at some points. So I

500
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 5: don't think it's I don't think it's the slam dump

501
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 5: of the giants of the fourth place team. I'm gonna

502
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 5: say the Padres, Padres Giants, then Diamondbacks. Currently, as we

503
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 5: sit on January twenty sixth.

504
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough.

505
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Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm gonna go with Todd Father for now,

506
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: but it's close. I just really like the Arizona offense

507
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: and the core that they have, and they kept it

508
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: together trading Catl Marte. That's the difference maker for me. Yeah,

509
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to a good offense. I'd like to see

510
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: them add one more arm. It could make a difference,

511
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna have arms coming back at some

512
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: point throughout the season.

513
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: Even is Corbyn going to get back maybe late in

514
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 2: the year. I don't know. Corbyn burns right, you should

515
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 2: have him at some point. Maybe August I thought he was.

516
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 5: I thought he was JUNI or july A right, let

517
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Speaker 5: me it.

518
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: Could be okay.

519
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think that's a that's a tight one

520
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: with Arizona and San Francisco right now. I think the

521
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: Patres are one step ahead of those teams. Then of

522
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: course you have la.

523
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.

524
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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

525
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 5: That's what he said.

526
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: That's what he said.

527
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this battle, Henry McCutcheon versus

528
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's the battle that I don't think

529
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: anybody signed up for but it's happening right now.

530
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 2: They had their fan fest this past weekend. Cutch is

531
00:26:59,640 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: not there.

532
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: Why Cutch is a free agent. He has not gotten

533
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: a phone call from the Pirates. He's been signing up

534
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: to one year contracts last couple of years, five year,

535
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: five million dollars and he's very vocal on Twitter.

536
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 2: We love him for that.

537
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: He's a great personality in our sport. He said he

538
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a phone call from the Pirates. At one

539
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: point this offseason, he explained how he can still do

540
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: some outfield. I mean, he didn't do a ton of it,

541
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: but he can right still in good shape to be

542
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: able to run around in the outfield. Ben Charrington at

543
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: FanFest for the Pirates, and I'll paraphrase here, was saying

544
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: how there's laser focused on winning more games this year,

545
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: and how he didn't say Cutch wasn't in the mix.

546
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: He just said, we'll see. It was kind of a

547
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: we'll see, here we go, where's Cutch? And here's the

548
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: answer from Charrington To be exact, Andrew's meant a ton

549
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: to the franchise. Our approach this offseason has been laser

550
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: focused on what gives us the best chance to win

551
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: more baseball games in Pittsburgh than we have in the

552
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: past seasons. I will add a captain obvious to the

553
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: back end of that answer, but that is your job

554
00:27:58,760 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: as GM and they've done it.

555
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 2: Nice job. They haven't done a ton, but they've done

556
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 2: a little bit. Todd Father, whose side are you taking here?

557
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: Should Andrew McCutcheon be on the twenty twenty six Pirates

558
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: if he does end up on the Pirates? Should they

559
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: have figured this out before FanFest? And what does the

560
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: contract look like for someone who was close to the

561
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: league average with his offense last year and at times

562
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: looked like one of their best bats because their offense

563
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: was so bad last year.

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Speaker 4: This is a tough one, but I'm always I'm always

565
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 4: gonna side with the player. I don't think there's an

566
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 4: argument like between the two of them, between Charington and McCutchen,

567
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 4: But I feel like McCutcheon deserves to at least be

568
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 4: in the know about what they're trying to do here.

569
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Speaker 4: Fun loving guy. Everybody loved him in Pittsburgh. This would

570
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 4: not be a good way to go out. Maybe there

571
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 4: was a disconnect of knowing, like when he wanted to retire.

572
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if they have had conversations. There's got

573
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 4: to be more to this store, to what we're hearing here,

574
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 4: then you know what we see on top of the surface,

575
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 4: because you know, we don't know how many conversations those

576
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 4: two had.

577
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: We don't know what both of them were thinking. But

578
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: I love what mccutch and said.

579
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: You know, he told basically whoever said that, you know, listen,

580
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 4: you're not gonna write my story, man, my story's not done.

581
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 4: I think I could play, and he's confident, and I

582
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: believe he still can play, and I believe the only

583
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 4: team he should play for is the Pirates. So I

584
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 4: hope they come to a conclusion on this. I hope

585
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 4: they find a way to get him another year deal,

586
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 4: you know, maybe put some stipulations on it.

587
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 5: I don't know, but.

588
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 4: I feel like him coming out and saying this, I

589
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 4: think he wants one more year at least. So I

590
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 4: would love to hear, you know, mccutch and talk about

591
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 4: this too, just to see where his mindset is.

592
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: We can try and get him on the show. We

593
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: can work on that we've had him on before.

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00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: So there was a radio host in Pittsburgh who said,

595
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: you know, on the Andrew McCutchen reunion tour, because he's

596
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: done three years, that's great, but they never won more

597
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: than ninety or seventy six games during the last years.

598
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: I respect what he's mean to the franchise in city,

599
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: but he's thirty nine. At some point you have to

600
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: look at different, better ways to win, even if it

601
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: means moving on. Cutch Quote tweeted that, and he replied,

602
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: I wonder did the Cards do this with wayIn Wright,

603
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: Pouhols Yati Dodgers to Kershaw, Tigers, Tomiggi.

604
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Speaker 2: The list goes on and on.

605
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Speaker 1: If this is my last year, it would have been

606
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: nice to meet the fans one last time as a

607
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: player talking about FanFest, talk to them about my appreciation

608
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: for them over the years, shake that little kid's hand,

609
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: or hug the fan that's been a fan since Clemente.

610
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: You see, this is bigger than baseball, bigger than looking

611
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: at a forty men roster and cherry picking numbers that

612
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: fit your agenda, prove why your opinion matters. The fans deserved,

613
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: at the very least to get that opportunity. I don't

614
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: know what the future holds for me at the present moment.

615
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: But what I do know is I'm thirty nine, on

616
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: the back end of my career. I still work every

617
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: day to be better than I was before. If there

618
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: wasn't a burning desire to continue this journey, I would

619
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: be home surrounded by my family, which no one would

620
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: judge or be surprised.

621
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Speaker 2: But not yet.

622
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: There's more work to do and I'm not done. No

623
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: matter what label you try to stamp on me, rip

624
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: the jersey off me. You don't get to write my future.

625
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: God doess So Kratz, what do you think? And when

626
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: this stuff comes out, people want to pick sides. Should

627
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: Andrew McCutchen be on the twenty six roster and should

628
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: the Pirates be handling this differently? I'll just add this

629
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: one caveat even if the Pirates didn't want him back,

630
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: why is there not a phone call? And if they

631
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: do want him back, which Charrington still is alluding to,

632
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: phone call, Hi, Andrew, We're still working through our offseason.

633
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 1: We'll see how the roster shakes out, but we are

634
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: thinking about bringing you back, and it might look at

635
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: one year. Whatever the number is that they come up with.

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00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted.

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00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 5: Five million, one year five million. I mean, it's like

638
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 5: it's just a standard Andrew McCutchen contract. I'm not going

639
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 5: to sit here and arc because Todd already said the

640
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 5: player is part of it, whether he should be on

641
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 5: the team or shouldn't be on the team. It's more

642
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 5: about what you said, Scott. It's more about the fact

643
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 5: that organizations don't just wake up and go, you know what,

644
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 5: we're going to try to compete this year. They knew

645
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 5: what their plan quote unplanned, was gonna be when the

646
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,719
Speaker 5: off season started. That conversation could have been had at

647
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 5: the end of last season. Now, maybe Ben Charrington was saying,

648
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 5: maybe they're gonna fire me. So I don't really want

649
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 5: to be the bad guy and talk to Andrew McCutcheon

650
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 5: about this, but the conversation needed to be had last year.

651
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 5: I saw Cutch in April and we were hanging out

652
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 5: before the game and he was playing outfield at that time,

653
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 5: and he was like, because Reynolds was down with a

654
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 5: I want to say, a shoulder or something, so he

655
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 5: wasn't He was still hitting, but he was not playing

656
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 5: the outfield at that point. He was like, he said,

657
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 5: at my age it's not the fact that I have

658
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 5: to play the outfield, he says, the fact that you

659
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 5: have to work into playing the outfield. You have to

660
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 5: work into you have to get your reps out there.

661
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 5: And when you get your reps out he's like, when

662
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 5: I get my reps out there, I'm good. I know

663
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 5: where I need to be. He's like, I'm not running

664
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 5: around center field, he said, I'm good to go. It's

665
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 5: just the fact that if you're DHDHDHDHDH and then all

666
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 5: of a sudden, banging in the outfield for four out

667
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 5: of seven days, it doesn't work like that. You don't

668
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 5: just rip the band aid off right away. He's like,

669
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 5: but if I know I got to play the outfield

670
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 5: four of seven days in the five of seven days,

671
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 5: he's like, then I just work myself up to it

672
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 5: and I'm able to get ready for that. So that's

673
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 5: where maybe a little bit of a lact of communication.

674
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 5: Now there's a new manager, Don Kelly comes in, maybe

675
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 5: he's able to communicate with him once he's on the team.

676
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 5: But I think he's still a viable piece to this organization.

677
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 5: But as a guy who I played with him two

678
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 5: thousand and nine, my first year with the Pirates. He

679
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 5: made his big lead debut that year. The fact that

680
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 5: you're talking about since two two thousand and nine, he's

681
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 5: going on his seventeenth season in the big leagues. You say,

682
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 5: there's a piece of that organization that they that if

683
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 5: they really care about the fans, there's something that needs

684
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 5: to be done differently than how it's been done so

685
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 5: far this offseason.

686
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: To Andrew McCutcheon, I wonder what the conversations were like

687
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: last year. He's been part of the organization for a

688
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: few years. I know you talked about this a little

689
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 1: bit Todd Father. Do any think they would have sat

690
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: down with him and said, hey, what's your plan? How

691
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: much longer do you want to play so we can

692
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 1: try and make this as beautiful as possible.

693
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't hit that. I'm glad Cratty brought

694
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 4: that up. Like, where is the communication?

695
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 3: Man?

696
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 4: That that's the most frustrating part been with the organization.

697
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 4: You know, I only played about twenty games, but spring

698
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 4: training on the communication was okay, I mean, but at

699
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 4: the same time with this guy, come on, dude, Like

700
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 4: that's the more frustrating part, Like, hey, dude, we're going

701
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 4: to talk to in the off season. If we can't

702
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 4: talk now, just something a little leeway of what they're

703
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 4: trying to do, you know, and if he gets mad

704
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 4: over that, then so be it. But at least they

705
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 4: told him exactly what they were thinking. And that's that's

706
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 4: that's the issue on hand. It's like, yeah, you want

707
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 4: to win more, Okay, I get it. Yeah, you want

708
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 4: to surplus of great athletes coming into your organization, but

709
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 4: you also want to be respectable and let a guy

710
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 4: go out on his terms and what he did for

711
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 4: that city can't be unmatched by anybody.

712
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: So that's the problem. No communication.

713
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 4: Just like when I tell my twelve year olds in

714
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 4: basketball when they're playing defense, where the hex's your communication?

715
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 3: There is not so they need it.

716
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 5: I don't know how Ben Charrington should have said this,

717
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 5: but it got me a little, like it made my

718
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 5: neck like hairs on my next and yes, and I

719
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 5: do have hair on my neck stand up like where

720
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 5: I was like, ah, man, Like he could have said

721
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 5: it differently, like hey, where's Andrew McCutcheon. Essentially, he said, oh,

722
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 5: we're trying to win, so that's why we're not bringing

723
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 5: them back. Like what, first of all, you should be

724
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 5: laser focused on winning every single day, no matter if

725
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 5: you're playing only the minimum, you know, big league call ups.

726
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 5: You should be laser focused on how you're trying to win.

727
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 5: It's not just like, well, you know what, we're not

728
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 5: trying this year. Oh wait a minute, ben Cherrington said that. Essentially,

729
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 5: he said that in his own words and how he

730
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 5: should have said it, Like, I just feel like there

731
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 5: was a better way to say, Hey, you know what,

732
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 5: we're not bringing Andrew back right now because we're looking

733
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 5: at other options, like give me a vague, not well,

734
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 5: we're really laser foot we want to win, and you

735
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 5: know why we're not picking him because we want to win.

736
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 5: Is essentially what he said that to me, that that

737
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 5: might fire, that might fire, fire cuts up a little bit,

738
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 5: get them old knees cranking up.

739
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: Do you think that this be salvaged or or do

740
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 2: you think we're past that point?

741
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 4: Right?

742
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you can call and apologizes. You don't think

743
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: you can be salvagedocrats I don't.

744
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 5: I don't, And I think and I think Kutch had

745
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 5: no he had no desire to go play anywhere else.

746
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 5: I mean, my guy's got he's got all the kids,

747
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 5: he's got every one of the kids, and he doesn't

748
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 5: want to go anywhere else. And it's tough, Todd. I

749
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 5: don't know if you ever played, you never played where

750
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 5: you stayed at home. But you play a season where

751
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 5: you stay at your house, the house you live in

752
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 5: any offseason, and then you go to the season, you

753
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 5: go to your games, you come back to that house.

754
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, you're like, wait a minute, what

755
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 5: does that look like again? Okay, I'm signing with the

756
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 5: team in Arizona. That's six weeks away. Okay, and then

757
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 5: wait a minute, I'm never going to be home. People.

758
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 5: There's other people that are saying, wait, what what did

759
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 5: the pirates say? Well, they didn't call, Well what did

760
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 5: they say? Why don't you call them? See what they're

761
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 5: see what they're thinking, Like, that's a that's a tough transition.

762
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:06,479
Speaker 5: But cut seems he definitely is pissed. I'm not gonna

763
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 5: say seems pissed. He's definitely pissed from his tweet, and

764
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 5: he wasn't necessarily hitting back at the Pirates. More so,

765
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 5: what what the guy on you know ninety three seven,

766
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 5: the fan was saying, he's zerotated. Yeah, he's irritated for sure, motivated,

767
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 5: I'm motivated.

768
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Chip on the shoulder, and also this is a legacy player.

769
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: So I just think it's so important again to go

770
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: back to what Todd father tells the youngsters and the

771
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: basketball team communication, because you are going to want Andrew

772
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: McCutchen at future FanFest, You're going to want him to

773
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: be at spring training, post playing career, You're going to

774
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: want him.

775
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: To be part of future marketing opportunities. That's important.

776
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: The teams that know what they're doing from a community perspective,

777
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: from a fan engagement perspective, and even from a business

778
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: perspective have some of the vets show back up at

779
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: certain times during the year. And Andrew McCutcheon is the

780
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: most notable Pittsburgh Pirate in a while.

781
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: So.

782
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 3: They have veteran they have veteran guys.

783
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 5: Go.

784
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: I've had guys at the Reds Vest for the past

785
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five years since they've had it. Come back

786
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 4: yeah every year, and their lines are always packed for

787
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 4: an autograph, for a picture.

788
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 5: So now in the last year, last calendar year, the

789
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 5: Pirates have covered up Roberto Clemente Wall with a drink

790
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 5: with a drink option they got rid of bricks that

791
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 5: fans paid for to have outside to commemorate their generations

792
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 5: of fans, and now they got a little, not even

793
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 5: a tiff, just like poor communication with their current living

794
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 5: franchise player.

795
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 2: Who is super popular with the fans.

796
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: Have to be careful, Yeah, you need to do some

797
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 1: introspection and say, hey, are.

798
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 2: We doing everything we should be doing correctly here?

799
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: And if not, how do we actually make changes? Because

800
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: that stuff permeates through an entire organization, and that actually

801
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: is part of a winning culture.

802
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: How do you do things?

803
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: How do you conduct business with everyone, with the fans,

804
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: with players, with former players. I think all of that matters.

805
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: We see some of the best organizations really thrive with that. Okay,

806
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: let's get to the next That's what he said. We

807
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: had some controversy over the weekend. There was a report

808
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: out there from Kevin Acy, who does a great job

809
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: covering the Padres. He often breaks news out there, and

810
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 1: he talked about how it appears as if you darbish

811
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: is going to retire and they're going to avoid the

812
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: rest of that contract. So as far as leaving lots

813
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: of money, I look at it as that was never

814
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: mine to begin with especially considering the money I haven't

815
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: physically earned yet. That was a quote from Darbish in

816
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 1: this article. Great work by Kevin to report on this story.

817
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: After the story comes out, first we get Joel Wolfe,

818
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: who is the representation for you, Darvish. He responds, he said,

819
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: you has not made a final decision yet. This is

820
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: a complicated matter we are still working through. By the way,

821
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: darvs is thirty nine and he has forty three million

822
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: dollars left over three seasons. He's not pitching this year.

823
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: It was it's Tommy John, right, I'm just clarifying Kratz.

824
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: Is it Tommy John yet? Okay, just making sure Tommy John.

825
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: So he's expected back in twenty twenty seven if he

826
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: does want to play in twenty seven. He wasn't going

827
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: to play in twenty six regardless. We also have a

828
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: quote from Darbish after the story, after the agent comes

829
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: out with a quote, and here's what he said from

830
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: his own Twitter account. You may have seen an article

831
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 1: and although I am leaning towards voiding the contract, there's

832
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: still a lot that has to be talked over with

833
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: the padres. So the final finer details are yet to

834
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: be decided. Also, I will not be announcing my retirement yet.

835
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: Right now, I am fully focused on my rehab for

836
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: my elbow, and if I get to a point where

837
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: I can throw again, I will start from scratch again

838
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: to compete. If once I get to the point and

839
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: I feel I can't do that, I will announce my retirement.

840
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: Okay, U Kratz, do.

841
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: You want to take me through what is going to

842
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: happen now? When you kind of say something and then go,

843
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: oh wait, I'm not going to give up all of

844
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: the guaranteed money yet, And it's not a good look

845
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: for the players to give up the guaranteed money that

846
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: they fight so hard for.

847
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 2: Where are we at here?

848
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 5: I mean, I love I love what he said. I

849
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 5: love the fact that he's like, whatever, I didn't even

850
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 5: really earn that money yet, like it's fine if I

851
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 5: don't get it. I love that he said that, not

852
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 5: for the whole like guaranteed contracts, the next player coming,

853
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 5: all that stuff. But I also think he knows what

854
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 5: level he wants to get back to, and he knows

855
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 5: how tough that will be. He knows what he has

856
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 5: ahead of him in the next year, and I to me,

857
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 5: I think it's a stand up thing that he said.

858
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 5: But I also think there's a lot of people that

859
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 5: are gonna sit there and go whoa whoa, whoa, whoa,

860
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 5: whoa whoah. We're not like, you're really gonna walk away

861
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 5: from this. I think he's more of just like whatever,

862
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 5: we'll say I'm done. I'm fine being done because of

863
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 5: the fact as a player, you sit there and you

864
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 5: go I have to rehab for an entire year. I

865
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 5: have to put everything I have into rehabbing to not

866
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Speaker 5: say I'm done like I'm done, like I don't have

867
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Speaker 5: the energy I got. I think he has a seventeen

868
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Speaker 5: year old son who's gonna be starting college in the

869
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 5: next year or two. I think he's got you know,

870
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 5: he's got other kids too, So it's like he's ready

871
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 5: to move on. I don't think everybody else is ready

872
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 5: to move on. That was hoping to get some of

873
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 5: that paycheck too.

874
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Scotty, let me finish this up. It

875
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 4: says there's still a lot has to be talked over

876
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 4: with the padres or the finer. Finer details are not

877
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Speaker 4: yet to be decided. So that's where I'm like, was

878
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 4: he in talks ready to get the heck? Out of

879
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 4: Dodge and go do his own thing. So that's where

880
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 4: I'm a little indecisive about the whole thing. So is

881
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 4: he leaning more towards retirement. We don't know, But when

882
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 4: you hear a comment like that makes you wonder just

883
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 4: a little bit more whether he's ready to hang him up.

884
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: Most likely, what will happen, in my mind, if I

885
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: had to predict, is that there will be some type

886
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: of fire out. Fine, then he will retire and step away.

887
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: If that's what he's feeling it. It appears as if

888
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go through the entire rehabit process

889
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: again at thirty nine years old. So I think you

890
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Speaker 1: can probably come up to some agreement. Maybe there's a

891
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: bunch of deferred money in there that makes the actual

892
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: net present value smaller, clears up some money for the padres.

893
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Speaker 1: On the short term, I think we're to see something

894
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: like that over the next perhaps few weeks. Hey, did

895
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Speaker 1: you guys see who?

896
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Speaker 2: By the way? Dodger's territory coming up part of the

897
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Speaker 2: Ft network right after this, and then.

898
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Speaker 1: Baseball America Hot Sheet will prospect Talk at three point

899
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Speaker 1: thirty Eastern time, So we'll keep live programming going for

900
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Speaker 1: you on the FT network, just like we did on

901
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Speaker 1: Saturday for four hours. If you want to go back

902
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Speaker 1: and look at the BBWAA live stream the award show.

903
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Speaker 2: It was awesome. Did you guys see.

904
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Speaker 1: Craig Kimbrel still kicking, still caring to have a base

905
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: if he makes the team, Todd Father to add to

906
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: the four HG D forty career saves. I mean, I

907
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: don't think you're necessarily going to be closing down games

908
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 1: for the Mets.

909
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 3: But hey, somebody else in the back burner there, you

910
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 3: never know.

911
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 4: I think that's a good pickup. He's not like he's

912
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 4: he's like washed up. The dude gets still pitch. Let's see,

913
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. You know, there's always gonna be injury.

914
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 4: So oh let's just throw you know, Kimberling there in

915
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 4: the sixth seventh instead of you know so and so

916
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 4: we'll put them back down the minors though, But you know,

917
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Speaker 4: I like it.

918
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Speaker 3: I like it a lot.

919
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Speaker 2: He made fourteen appearances last year with the GDRA teams.

920
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 2: Think the stuff's going down.

921
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Speaker 1: I mean, no doubt this stuff's not going to be

922
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Speaker 1: what it was from five years ago. But we'll see

923
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: what he looks like in spring training, the Wall.

924
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Speaker 5: The me as they are with the velocity velocity down.

925
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 5: As much as the Guardians haven't done a whole lot

926
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Speaker 5: this offseason, the fact that they locked up a franchise

927
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Speaker 5: player in a time when nobody spends their entire career

928
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Speaker 5: with with the same team. Good for the Guardians. I

929
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 5: think the internal workings of the Guardians are one of

930
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 5: the best that I saw when I played for a team.

931
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 5: Good for them, good for Rosey, and good for his

932
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 5: second his second video game room that he gets to

933
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 5: have video games and then his kids don't wake up

934
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 5: in the middle so he can play some Mario Kart

935
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Speaker 5: in the second hotel room.

936
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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's true.

937
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's for his draft.

938
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Speaker 1: That's right, right, the separate video game room. I don't

939
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Speaker 1: think they clarified that in the contract, but he does

940
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Speaker 1: get two hotel rooms.

941
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Speaker 2: He's a lucky man.

942
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he earned it. He is the best player on

943
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Speaker 1: that team for a long time. Noelan Arnado joined us

944
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Speaker 1: on tomorrow's show among other guests.

945
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Speaker 2: Yes, we will see you tomorrow.